The Writer:

Marti Noxon is one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. She has written for such acclaimed television series as Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Glee, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’s also the writer behind the recent flicks Fright Night and I Am Number Four. IMDB has listed her among the Top 20 Writers of the Past 20 Years — one of only four women on the list.

Credits:

Quotes:

I definitely am drawn more to the darker side of things. The things I’m definitely drawn to are more melodramatic, and that’s OK – we all have our favourites. It takes me a long time to write a good joke.

Many, many films kept me up at night as a child, not the least of which was Soylent Green (1973) half-viewed from under our backseat at a drive-in theater. ‘Soylent Green is people!’ was seared into my young mind, and I still think of it when faced with an unidentifiable food product. But I recall only two movies that have kept me awake as an adult: The Exorcist (1973) and The Blair Witch Project (1999). Both stay really grounded in characters we like and relate to while delving into a supernatural world. Their helplessness and human failings in the face of something truly malevolent gets under my skin every time. And “The Exorcist” remains one of the most visually creepy films around. Those flashes of demonic faces, the suffocating fog. It’s brilliant.

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it’s none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can’t wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.

Here is the script for Cedar Rapids written by Phil Johnston.

When you live and work on your own, as I do, writing takes a long time. You can keep producing shit and you’re always wondering whether you should stop. I’m so glad I had friends who told me to keep going.

The script for Rocky was written by Sylvester Stalone.

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely feel it with a whole piece, but sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

This remake of Arthur was written by Peter Baynham.

Here is the script for Kramer vs. Kramer written by Robert Benton.

My books aren’t trying to fathom the mysteries of human existence. I’m an entertainer.

This script for Unknown was written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell based on the novel Out of My Head by Didier van Cauwelaert.